-why did von hayek call planning the macroeconomics road to serfdom? bonus question, after being awarded the nobel prize for economics why did he explain the separation of peace and economics prizes as the most maddening of follies?

1950-1975 The new and worst sciences for risking human sustainability took over - and their economics branch was called macroeconomics

1976-2000 the quarter of mapping whether global village or top-down globalization would be irreversibly designed around the first net generation (micro technical note: as far back as Einstein the risk of globalisation was foreseen as the first era of humans who used tech to connect systems whose scale rivaled nature- her evolution designs are bottom-up and openly collaborative ; einstein worked mainly with gandhi on that crisis though his contemporary George Orwell potrayed humanits end game in the book Big Brother)

2000-2025 All to play and pay for- but as yet (2014) most of the world's biggest systems are compounding the devaluation of youth which is also why we see Jim Kim's appeal to delay 2025 by 5 years as wise

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.Good news 2014

.World Bank Joim Kim asks for a 5-ear extension #2030now to designing the net generation's defining social movements around end poverty and thriving youth livelihoods all over wholeplanet

Good news 2007 - the last of the 3 place brand models that can sustain the world has now been found from searches into place branding that World Class Brands networks started in 1989 . The 3 types of place brands:

village brands which conceive one of the 30000 most openly replicable microfranchises

the future capitals where iwin youth job creating expos become more valuable to co-host than the Olympics- why ILABs help youth be epicentral to capitals with a future

the nation brands that neighbours love because they are cultivated (open governance) around win-win trades and maximising how knowhow multiplies value as you connect across borders unlike thinks that get consumed up

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Our centenary at The Economist is a pause in journey that will continue. To the journalist, pause for taking stock should be welcome , since it is the nature of his trade that he cannot stop. Time’s winged chariot is ever at his back. Rarely does he have the chance to lift his eyes from the immediate road. To look at the wider horizon and to ask himself where is he going and for what purpose.

It is still possible by social action to create a world of justice, freedom, and fraternity and of material welfare.

Does a journal have the right to influence the course of events? Every serious journalist should ask himself this question and test his answer very seriously. In the case of The Economist, the answer must be that if the journal has no influence then the work of a hundred years has been wasted and generations of readers have been content to buy the paper in misconception of its founding purpose.

We refuse to believe that this (world war 2) is the evening of civilisation. We have perhaps lost the freshness or morning , and in the heat of the day the going is harder than it was. But high noon is yet before us, given clear thinking and courage , we have yet to see the best of the journey. In this great caravan, the journal of opinion, if it is to be humble and honest, has its place. The Economist has stayed with the caravan longer than is given to most. It hopes to stay a great while longer.

24 years ago my dad who worked all his life at The Economist and I wrote a future history on the networking age and integration of every local community into global.

Pattern Rule Chaos 1: C1 Leaders who over-value the image of always looking correct accidentally become the most destructive powers in an era of unprecedented change

Pattern Rule Chaos 2: C2 The era 1984-2024 brings unprecedented change around the wholeplanet where the sustainability of 6.5 billion human beings will exponentially compound up or down depending on how we map and harmonise 3 forces that historic systems ruled as conflicts:

1 command from the top
2 community-up
3 flows through boundaries as systems that were separate become interfaced in networks - system*system*system

Like most people I know 9/11 shocked me to the core. I joined some Gandhian and medically led networks which studied how global reconciliation depended on the healthy communities and cross-cultural joy. By 2004 I found myself presenting a paper to 500 Gandhians inDelhiwhich updated the first 20 years on network futures into the primary challenge now.

Pattern Rule Chaos3 : C3 Today, the life and times of generations that follows us depends on how this current generation faces up to the coming wars between goodwill and badwill networks.

Pattern Rule Chaos5: C5 Most crashes are led not by people of badwill but by people of blindwill. For examples: today there is evidence of crashing banks, crashing food prices, crashing climate. All of these failing systems have been caused not by any one leader but hundreds or thousands following conventional wisdom, as well as edicts such as: we'll lose if we are the first to aim to transform the system. This is blindwill at its peak.

Ironically, back in 1984 it was much easier to openly debate some types of future than it is today. For example, scientists in 1984 agreed by an overwhelming majority that investing in solar energy was a simple priority for the next 2 decades

Around 1980, a worldwide association of system transformation folk met annually. By 1984 they decided podium meetings were unproductive - the opportunities to network at conference breaks were the most vital when a world-experienced group met once a year. They wanted to action learn from each other's latest context and flows. The 3-day open space conference was born in which there is no separation of them (speakers) and us (audience). Hundreds of thousands of Open Spaces later, the original host Harrison Owen identifisd chaos' 3Cs

Pattern Rule Chaos6: C6: Beware the 3C's: change, confusion, chaos. If a change enters a system however perfect it has historically been, conflicts will start to compound unless they are openly detected and communally resolved. The more the change and its conflicts go unaddressed cycle after the cycle the more a perfect storm of chaos takes over the system. Confusion of this system needs to be transformed first and foremost by empowering all to see what the top people do not know. In practice, chaos takes over a once healthy system when top people don’t intervene in time, and this itself happens most frequently when the original change involved a rule that was historically perfect to govern one way but which it is now precisely wrong to govern with because the way forward is no longer the same as the way past.

Pattern Rule Chaos7: C7 Academic theories of butterflies fluttering their wings are utterly irrelevant to practical solutions of Globalisation chaos. Key question to ask ahead of time is what systems that could be mapped safely as separate in times past, become most risky in the world if we persist in assuming separability just as networks are connecting them multiplicatively. Think of the difference of adding and multiplying with zero : ie leaving unchanged or destroying completely. It's the same with how a crashing system zeroises. Systems separate to it may be left unchanged; systems connected by it will crash too. This is presumably why networking age auditing must early detect early respond to potential conflicts (in the words of Larry Brillinat, chief at google.org and medical network mapper extraordinaire).

Pattern Rule Chaos4 : C4 While a system is alive with energy, it is always compounding one of 2 future journeys: goodwill, aka sustainability's exponential up, badwill, aka crash's exponential down

Pattern Rule Chaos8: Historic and tangible accounting's assumptions of separability (and dominant operator of addition) when ruling alone have become the perfect maths for compounding future crashes. The wholeplanet needs to look for a second audit to be an antidote to ruling by addition and separation alone. This can be seen to be what standing up for truth (reference Einstein on Gandhi's Satyagraha) and maps of goodwill mulitply.

The hunt for the missing audit had a false start in 2000 with a the brilaint publication by Brookings & Georgetown of Unseen Wealth. Unfortunately, the incoming adminstration from Texas literally trashed this report. As of 2008, the simplest Unseen Wealth Business model is the Social Business model proposed by Muhammad Yunus and seconded by leading networker future capitalists, most notably Bill Gates.

Schumacher - the challenge of ending poverty needs to be transparently mapped as mainly a design problem of 2 million villages

Entrepreneurial revolution prediction in the 2025 Report

By early in 21st C man will see his greatest risk is differences in incomes and expectations between rich and poor nations - smart public broadcasters will partner with internet to develop reality tv searched for microfrancise silution- over 30000will be needed to be openly reploicated across vilage networks so that the value (and growth of livelihoods) exchanged is wholly or mainly sustained in the valiages where it is produced

JIM MKIM the number 1 agenda of any place leader in the new media world must be serving an end to inequality- this isnt just a moral judgement it will become a survival criterion of eladers themselves. I discussed whether this idea is compatible with the Pope's call to design a servant leadeer curriculum - he said count on me it is.

Dad (Norman Macrae) created the genre Entrepreneurial Revolution to debate how to make the net generation the most productive and collaborative . We had first participated in computer assisted learning experiments in 1972. Welcome to more than 40 years of linking pro-youth economics networks- debating can the internet be the smartest media our species has ever collaborated around?

1972: Norman Macrae starts up Entrepreneurial Revolution debates in The Economist. Will we the peoples be in time to change 20th C largest system designs and make 2010s worldwide youth's most productive time? or will we go global in a way that ends sustainability of ever more villages/communities? Drayton was inspired by this genre to coin social entrepreneur in 1978 ,,continue the futures debate here